Legislation: batch A — AK AL AR AZ CO CT DE GA HI IA ID

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/az/57th-1st-regular/sb-1540.md

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "personal property exemptions; vehicles"
+description: "personal property exemptions; vehicles"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
+legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
+session: "57th-1st-regular"
+identifier: "SB 1540"
+citation: "Arizona SB 1540 (57th-1st-regular)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Frank Carroll"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-10"
+last_action: "2025-05-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0859ef91-ea58-4b3e-964e-6475f009b4df"
+source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/82978?SessionId=129"
+source_hash: "d0e9ac892bfbc21dcd47eccf9390101b3201e1f471341cc8b0889300b48a1c4e"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-az"]
+---
+
+# Arizona SB 1540 (57th-1st-regular) — personal property exemptions; vehicles
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chaptered Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/laws/0111.pdf)
+2. **HOUSE - 1540COMMERCE.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/527926)
+3. **HOUSE - Commerce - Strike Everything** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/527551)
+4. **HOUSE - Floor Amend to COM - Weninger - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/528601)
+5. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1540h.pdf)
+6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1540p.pdf)
+7. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1540s.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed — **26–3** (pass) · upper
+- Passed — **0–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed — **29–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed — **55–0** (pass) · lower
+- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Frank Carroll — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-10** DP `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-10** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-11** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-27** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-27** Transmit to House
+- **2025-03-11** House First Reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-12** House Second Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-18** DPA/SE `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-03-27** DPA `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-04-14** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-14** Transmit to Senate
+- **2025-04-29** PASSED `passage`
+- **2025-04-29** PASSED `passage`
+- **2025-04-29** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-02** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0859ef91-ea58-4b3e-964e-6475f009b4df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).
+